I was watching the Dennis the Menace show from the early 60s on Prime and noticed that it was rated PG13. I was curious as to how this could possible be rated PG13 and it said alcohol use, language, and smoking. That isn’t as crazy as a modern day/gen z warning I saw for Leave it to Beaver that mentioned that “it had outdated norms and it shows all white people”. In the 50s, white people made up over 90 percent of the country so the Cleaver family “reflected the world around them”. Heck, even today a traditional white nuclear family is a much better reflection of an American family than what Hollywood reflects which is some lgbt heavy neighborhood in California or NY.
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Where I live a number of classic tv show channels (mainly shows from 50s to early 00s) are popping up like crazy. Most of what I watch is early 00s or prior. They have to realize why so many people would rather watch older stuff
I honestly thought I was having nostalgia for the old stuff. Just like I always hear from older people when I was a kid that [insert whatever] was so much better before my days.
Turns out that's not even the case. Because my dad would watch the shows I watched as a kid. Cartoons mostly. I'm enjoying the older games, movies, and shows because companies today and their woke employees can't comprehend what made media great back then. We didn't care about skin color until they started bragging about diversity. Now we worry that they made the main character black strictly because of skin color.
All of this woke shit and the destruction of our media has made me crave older material. I think I've spent more on older gen games this year than newer games this year and all last year combined.
I enjoyed my generation’s shows as well as the older stuff. Some things I gained more of an appreciation for as I’ve gotten older like Little House on the Prairie. My general rule of thumb is to watch stuff from 2014 and prior. Like you said thanks to all the talk of diversity when I see a black or female lead I’m thinking it’s gonna beat me over the head with THE MESSAGE. Stuff from years past I’ll give a chance to regardless. Dont get me started on the massive over representation of lgbt
At the risk of sounding hyperbolic, it's a minor example of satanic Inversion. (no need to be religious to understand this) When the outside force is in subversive mode, it attacks mainstream values as backwards and silly while preaching tolerance to appeal to everyone's sense of fairness and desire to be left alone. Once the outside force takes control, it no longer needs to pretend tolerance, and imposes its own twisted values both as a form of comeuppance and to demand submission to the new order. The NPC enforcer of the new order is the kid who hates his dad and aspires to be the exact opposite when he grows up. "Dad was so uptight and Christian. I'm gonna let my kid swear like a sailor. It's just words." But new Dad has to pretend to be an adult in charge now or nobody will take him seriously, so also "I'd better not catch my son using homophobic slurs."
Leftists in particular feel euphoric at being in charge and imposing nonsense rules against right-wingers - in this case trigger warnings and content ratings for what used to be no big deal, while pushing drag queen story hour and porn in school libraries. They don't necessarily believe in the new rules, but they're happy that the former "oppressors" are getting a taste of their own medicine.
I've seen some of them complain that Christians run mainstream media and news outlets. It's just a scare tactic; but if it were true, then those Christians are doing an incredibly terrible job converting people and even upholding their own values.
Yeah, I love listening to liberal YouTubers with their partnership deals whine about Fox news and conservative media.
Only hyperbolic to someone who doesn't understand what's going on.
Language on Dennis the Menace...Great Scott. That's the worse thing Mr. Wilson says.
The use of this type of language is highly problematic due to it implying that Scots are great. The fact is that Scots have never been great, aren't currently great, and will only ever be great if they accept diversity into their society.
I know! Also Dennis commented on people’s weight by calling them fat. The horror!
There was an episode with a chinese girl and someone might have called her oriental. Which they tell me is a slur, but I don't get how.
Its because they don't recognize that Occident is a word that exists as the description polar from Oriental, so they assume it can only be racist made up slurs.
Same way that Jap is a slur because abbreviations aren't real, and coon is one because raccoons don't exist.
Yep, it's a completely benign etymology. The sun rises in the east, so the east of the Eurasian land mass is the Orient.
And there was a black tv repairman that got into an argument with Mr Wilson because he didn’t agree to the price he was charging. How dare Mr Wilson not recognize his privilege
A real complaint by the strikers in Hollywood last year was that AI could make old shows with all of the characters. I don't think they understood how much of a selling point that was.
Exactly! I’d love some more Colombo, Bogart, Portier, Leave or to Beaver, Andy Griffith Show, Matlock, Sanford and Son, Hill Street Blues, wow I could go on and on
Have all the tirades
AI: Propaganda: Justine Bateman
During the Hollywood strike one woman claims to be a computer scientist and actress. She thinks Hollywood needs to outlaw AI or actors will be gone soon. So she supports the strike. She dislikes the term content
https://archive.ph/cWQg9
Here's another anti content.
https://archive.ph/knW9D
This is her saying actors will have their faces rented for cheap to movies.
https://archive.ph/VXw1H
This is her saying Hollywood demands AI take over.
https://archive.ph/JIyuD
Here's another horror filled anti AI thread. These are going around my lefty friends a lot. Even a few lawyers.
https://archive.ph/kdn4S
The early episodes of The Andy Griffith Show are the greatest. Barney Fife is my hero. What characters . . . The Darlings; Ernest T. Bass; the beautiful Ellie Walker, lady pharmacist; Otis the funny town drunk; dithering, motherly Aunt Bee, and Opie when he was a cute little carrot-top.
I wish I could live in Mayberry. Maybe Mt Airy, NC is close.
I want to attend a Mayberry Days festival at least. Yea, once Barney left it wasn’t as good. At least he made some appearances. I think Goober with Gomer are great but Gomer went off to do Gomer Pyle USMC. If you haven’t seen it, the episode where Goober visits Gomer at his base is great. I did like Mayberry RFD as well
See I was confused as I thought of this Dennis not the American one. It also doesn't help they were both created FIVE DAYS apart completely independently!
Yeah it's crazy that the normal view of a nuclear family with light, manageable consumption of alcohol and smoking is dangerous compared to grooming kids for body maiming.
Yes, when the US version is shown or read over there, it is renamed to simply "Dennis" for this reason.
It's one of the great coincidences of history.
And yet I still find people saying it's NOT a coincidence...to which I quote Deep Space Nine:
"I believe in coincidences. Coincidences happen every day. But I don't trust coincidences."
Never saw the UK version. I saw the cartoon from the 80s and Nickelodeon used to show the old show when I was a kid.
Fun fact: Jay North, Dennis on that show, would years later voice Bamm-Bamm Rubble.
Cool! He was also in a movie in the 70s called the teacher where he just graduated and is seduced by his former high school teacher who has a stalker after her. Weird seeing him in a role like that
They put trigger warnings on Archie comics now. There's literally nothing that's safe from these people.
Did it actually warn, 'it contains all white people.'?
Something like “outdated values from a white perspective”
This is probably the first instance I've heard of the rating being altered to reflect such nonsense. Absolutely insane and bizarre.
I believe Pokemon Red and Blue were briefly given M ratings on the 3DS eShop because of...the Celadon Game Corner slot machines.
Yet NBA 2K is E for Everyone.
They had a long bunch of simping apologizing before a showing of "The Shakiest Gun in the West" the other day, too.
It features bossy squaws and Pat Morita.
That is one Don Knotts movie I haven’t seen. I want to. I did see Mr Limpet. Reminds me of how they say they need to “contextualize” Gone with the Wind
Can you explain the meaning of "oriole" here? I assume it's an auto correct thing, but if not, I'm very curious.
People. Thanks, I fixed it.
That is a 'you' problem.
At least it’s a familiar feeling for you.
have you tried not being a gay commie?
The absurdity of the ratings they give those shows. Also I could go on but one of my annoyances are leftist Gen z people who attack old shows that everyone finds wholesome
If you find what is great then you have a goal to make America great again and they can't allow that
It's part of the current Maoist cultural revolution; It's been pretty thorough, but people are getting fed up. I predict all this bluenose shit will be ignored out of existence.
Can you even understand reality?